Intravenous Drug Users: International Aids Conference

California San Diego Dept: “The epidemic has changed,” said Steffanie Strathdee, associate dean of global health sciences at the University of California, San Diego, according to Globe And Mail. The incidence rate – the number of new cases per capita – is twice as high in Saskatchewan as Ontario and but those being infected today are increasingly intravenous drug users, aboriginal people and immigrants in Canada, an epidemiological shift illustrated by the fact Saskatchewan is now the hotbed of HIV-AIDS in Canada, delegates at the International AIDS Conference heard Thursday. She noted that, a decade ago, virtually all HIV-AIDS cases were found in the big three provinces: Ontario, Quebec and B.C. But now “the Prairies are catching up.” As reported in the news.
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